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Article: WITH WATER WAR ENDING, WILL THINGS GET HOT OR COLD? LIKE THE EAST-WEST CONFLICT, THE NEED TO QUENCH THE REGION'S THIRST PRODUCED IMPLACABLE HOSTILITY, A PERPETUAL WAR FOOTING, AN UNSLEEPING VIGILANCE AND FREQUENTLY A JUMPY PARANOIA. MORE ABUNDANT WATER MAY ALLOW THE REGION TO LET IDEAS FLOWER AND GROW UNCHECKED.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 29, 1997
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Byline: Keith Monroe
For the second time this decade, Hampton Roads is facing the end of a Cold War. First, the Berlin Wall came down with big implications for the military and the shipbuilders that are so much a part of our region. Now, the Lake Gaston pipeline is essentially complete. And again, a big change that in our bones we may never have expected to see is upon us. It will bring consequences that are hard to predict.
The Cold War analogy isn't entirely fanciful. In each case, a seemingly permanent condition is suddenly at an end. Old verities are shaken. New challenges present themselves. Old thinking must be discarded if new opportunities are to ...